Toggle-bolt.



H'. B. NEWHALL.'JR. & J. E. GOEWEY.

v TOG-GLE BOLT. 7

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 9,1912.

1,179,449. I Patented Apr. 18,1916.'

l/l/VE TOR-Y WITNESSES THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 10., WASHINGTON, D- C.

UNIED s A'rEs PATENT no HENRY IB. NEWHALL, JR., OF PLAINFIELCD, AND JAMES EDWARD GOEWEY, OF NEW- ARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO DIAMOND EXPANSION BOLT COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TOGGLE-IBOLT.

Specification of Letters Patent. P t t m; 1 191 Application filed September 9, 1912. Serial No. 719,374.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, HENRY B. NEW- HALL, Jr., a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, and JAMES EDWARD GoEwEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toggle-Bolts, of which the following is a specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of the same, this invention being an improvement on said Goeweys Patent No. 979,841, patented December 27, 1910.

This invention relates to toggle bolts and more particularly to one which can be cheaply and economically manufactured, and further, to one in which the head of the toggle bolt will cooperate interchangeably with either the head of the stem or with the nut, either being adapted to be inserted within the head of the toggle bolt.

It further relates to the head of the toggle bolt as a separate article of manufacture.

In the accompanying drawings we have shown illustrative embodiments of our invention in which the same reference numerals refer to similar parts in the several figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of our toggle bolt showing the head of the screw or bolt mounted within the toggle head; Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the manner of slipping the head of the screw or bolt into the toggle head. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross section on line 3, 3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank from which the toggle head is preferably formed; Fig. 5 is a verticel section through the toggle head, the support and the article supported; Fig. 6 is a side elevation showing the nut mounted within the toggle head; Fig. 7 is a side elevation of a modification; Fig. 8 is a plan view of a blank from which the head shown in Fig. 7 is made; Fig. 9 is a vertical cross section on the line 9-9 of Fig. 7 Fig. 10 is a side elevation of the same toggle head as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, showing that the nut may also be slipped into the head.

In the illustrative embodiments of this invention shown in the drawing, 1 is a toggle bolt including a head 2, a stem 3, and stem engaging members 4 and 5, either being the head 2, formed by bending it as shown,

one or more means to permit the head 1 or the nut 5 to the slipped into the toggle head 2 so that either the head at or the nut 5 may be quickly positioned in the toggle head to permit either to cooperate with the pivoting and locking respectively. p

In some classes-of work it is desirable to have the nut 5 exposed on the face of the article 11 supported. In'such casesby our invention, the head 4: is slipped into the throat 12 formed in the preferred construction by providing the head with one or more bends or dents 13, 13 .extending at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the head 2. The angle may, of course, be varied without departing fromour invention. Preferably the throat 12 is formed at acomparatively sharp angle to the longitudinal axis of the heat 2 as shown. Such a sharp angle tends to prevent either the head 41 or the nut 5 from being forced into the throat 12 when the toggle bolt is passed through the support 14: and consequently the end 15 of the toggle head 2 will swing down freely into the position shown in Fig. 5. This throat 12 is preferably made by forming two bends or dents 13, 13 in the toggle head 2 as shown. Our invention is not to be limited, however, to this manner of forming an opening or throat in the toggle head, for we have shown this form simply by way of example.

Another example, to which our invention is not to be limited, is by forming the blank 16, Fig. 8, with only one bend or dent 17, in addition to the slots 7 and 8, making the toggle head 18, Figs. 7 and 9.

In our improved toggle bolt, either the head 4, or the nut 5, as indicated in Fig. 10, can be readily slipped into the toggle head 2, as previously noted; or the nut 5 shoulders 9, 9and 10, 10,

may, if desired, be removed from the bolt 3 and be independently positioned on the pivoting shoulders 9, 9 without passing it through the throat 12, or 17, and then screw the bolt 3 into it as shown in the Goewey Patent No. 979,841, previously referred to.

In our toggle bolt, the toggle head 2 is passed through the aperture 20 in the support 14L of terra cotta, brick, metal work, cornice work, wire lath, masonry, or other material, with the pivoting shoulders 9, 9 cofiiperating with either the head 4 or nut 5. As soon as the head 2 is free of the support, it swings or pivots on the head 4 or nut 5, thereby bringing the locking shoulders 10, 10 into engagement with thehead l or nut 5, as the case may be. The article supported 11 is then tightly secured to the support 14L by simply screwing up the nut 5 on the head 4, whichever is on the exterior.

Having thus described this invention in connection with the illustrative embodiments thereof, to the details of which we do not desire to be limited, what is claimed as new and what it is desired to secure by Letters Patent is set forth in the appended claims:

1. The combination with a bolt of a toggle head formed of a body member and two spaced side strengthening flanges provided with pivoting and locking shoulders and with a throat formed at an angle to the gle head formed of a body member and two spaced side strengthening flanges provided with pivoting and locking shoulders and with one or more dents formed at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the toggle head and adapted to receive either the head or nut of the bolt.

at. In a toggle bolt, the combination of a toggle head provided with pivoting and locking shoulders and with a throat at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the toggle head, and a bolt and nut, either the head of the bolt or the nut being adapted to cooperate with the throat of the toggle head.

HENRY B. NENHALL, JR. JAMES EDWARD GOEVEY.

Vitnesses:

HENRY PLEISTER, A. M. VVILLIAMs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patent Washington, I). 0." 

